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U.S. Navy Identifies Missing Sailor Who Reportedly Went Overboard from Aircraft Carrier
Hawaii skydiving crash victims included young couple, sailor
Mother says Ukrainian sailor held by Moscow 'always dreamed of sea'
Pensioner Olga Oprysko only found out her son had been captured by Russian forces after a neighbour in her small western Ukrainian village told her about an incident in the Azov Sea. When she switched on her television, the 74-year-old saw that Russian border guards were holding Ukrainian sailors after a confrontation in the Kerch Strait — a waterway that gives access to the Azov Sea from the Black Sea. At first, she did not think he was involved, Oprysko told AFP in her house in Naditychi, a village south of Lviv in western Ukraine.
Former US Navy sailor pardoned by Trump plans to sue Obama over classified information case
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 76 years later
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The funeral for a recently identified Kentucky sailor who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago is bringing his family together for the first time in decades.
U.S. Navy says remains found by Malaysia not of a USS McCain sailor
The U.S. Navy said on Thursday human remains found by Malaysia were not one of its 10 sailors missing after a collision between one of its guided-missile destroyers and a merchant vessel east of Singapore this week. Medical examination of the remains, which the Malaysian navy discovered about eight nautical miles northwest of where the USS John S. McCain and a merchant vessel collided on Monday, confirmed it was not one of the 10 sailors, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement.
US Navy ends search for sailor thought lost in west Pacific
TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Navy has ended a three-day search for a sailor who is believed to have gone overboard during operations in the South China Sea.
China helps US search for missing sailor in S. China Sea
China said Thursday that it helped the United States search for an American sailor who fell into the South China Sea — a rare cooperative gesture in the disputed waters. The sailor went missing Tuesday during a joint US-Japanese drill in the South China Sea. Japanese and US naval forces have been holding drills in the contested South China Sea in the face of Beijing’s increasing assertiveness over its maritime claims in the region.
China 'coordinating with U.S.' in South China Sea search for sailor
China said on Thursday that it was coordinating with the U.S. navy in the search for a missing U.S. sailor in the South China Sea, a rare show of goodwill between the navies in the disputed waters.
The Latest: Trump thanks Japan for help in sailor search
